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  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    have Perpetual and Temporary Actions in England; all being perpetual, which are not expressly limited. So also, diverse statutes give actions, on condition they be pursued within the time prescribed. Thus, the statute of 1 Edw. VI. gives action for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • STATUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/STATUTE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    is divided into magna & parva. Assize is also used, according to Littleton, for an Ordinance or Statute of Assize. See STATUTES and ORDINANCE. Thus the Statute of Bread and Ale, Anno 51 Hen. 3. is termed the Assize of Bread and Ale. Assize, or Assise,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    ACCESSORY, or Accessary, something that accedes, or is added to another more considerable thing, or arises as a natural Consequence therefrom. See ACCESSION. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    men were driven to procure the king’s writs, or letters patent, to appoint attorneys for them: But ’tis since provided by statutes, that it shall be lawful to appoint an Attorney without such circumvention; as appears by several statutes, 20 Hen. III....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    own confession, or an eyewitness of the fact, so that the greatest offenders often escaped with impunity: there were two statutes made by Henry VIII, enacting that criminals should henceforth be here tried by witnesses and a jury; and this by special...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    convocation, or the like; entered in a register. See REGISTER, etc. Acts of Parliament are particularly denominated Statutes. See PARLIAMENT and STATUTE. The Acts of the Royal Society are called Transactions; those of the Royal Academy of Sciences at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ABOLITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABOLITION

    ABOLITION, the Act of undoing, destroying, or throwing a Thing out of use. Thus, in our Laws, the Abolition of a Law, Statute, or Custom, is the abrogating or repealing it. See ABROGATION, REPEALING, STATUTE, &c. So, the Leave given by the King or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    Breach of the eighth and ninth Articles of the Treaty of Munster. Articles of the Clergy, Articuli Cleri, are certain Statutes touching Persons and Causes ecclesiastical, made under Edward II, and III. Article of Faith, is some Point of Christian...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT

    read. See TEMPLE. Ancient is sometimes also used in a Military sense for an Ensign. See ENSIGN. ANCIENTY, in some ancient Statutes, is used for Eldership or Seniority. Thus, the eldest Sister can demand no more than her other Sisters beside the Chief...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARRAYERShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRAYERS

    Arraiatores,is used in some ancient Statutes, for such Officers as had care of the Soldiers' Armour, and saw them duly accoutred in their kinds. See ARMOUR, ACCOUTREMENTS, etc. Such were the Commissioners of Array, appointed by King Charles I. in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    Adminiculum, Adminiculatum, a term used in some ancient statutes, for aid, help, or support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to form or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • AUNCEL-WEIGHThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUNCEL-WEIGHT

    and the Thing weighed. See BALANCE. There being great Deceits practiced in these Weights, they were prohibited by several Statutes; and the even Balance alone commanded. See WEIGHT and STANDARD. The Word is still used in some Parts of England, to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPROVEMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVEMENTUM

    Thus, to Approve, approbare, is to make the best benefit of a thing by increasing the Rent, etc. In some ancient Statutes, Bailiffs of Lords in their Franchises are called their Approvers. See BAIL, Cum omnibus Approviamentis & aliis pertinentiis suis,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    LAW or the Rules and Measures of SOCIETY ; publish'd in Act, Statute, Charter, Rescript, Constitution, Decretal, Senatus-consultum, Pragmatic Sanction, &c. Recorded, in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    AGE, the natural duration of anything; and particularly of the life of man. See DURATION, and LIFE. The ordinary age of mankind has been occasionally varied, in such manner as to afford a fine instance of the wisdom of Providence. See the article...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    AID, or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    ACRE, a Quantity of Land, containing four square Roods, or 160 square Poles. See MEASURE; see also ROOD, and PERCH.By a Statute of 31 Eliz. it is ordained, That if any Man erect a new Cottage, he shall add four Acres of Land to it.See COTTAGE.To find...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    ALIEN, in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law
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